Dear Jaimie–praise God, I’ve been fully healed from my OCD! I read the email in my inbox with a twinge of apprehension. I’d received similar emails before, and I knew how the story often ended. I prayed earnestly and ...
You’re striving against sin or against your OCD, but you’re not winning. You keep failing, and each failure makes you feel further and further from God. You want so badly to stop your sin or your compulsive behaviors, but ...
Jaimie Eckert
May 13, 2024
Are you afraid you’re not saved? Despite all your best attempts to draw close to Jesus… Despite your fastidious prayers and confessions and surrenders… Despite your earnest and tearful rooting out of sin… Despite the obvious presence of “good ...
Jaimie Eckert
Apr 26, 2024
Today’s guest post comes to us from Mike, an IT specialist from America’s midwest region. He’s a husband and father of one lovely preschooler and has struggled with OCD for at least 30 years. His biggest fears have focused ...
Jaimie Eckert
Sep 14, 2023
If you’re a Christian and you’ve been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, you might be among the ranks of those who get weird, unwanted blasphemous thoughts. And if you’re in therapy for your OCD, you probably know that a big ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jun 29, 2023
Have you ever doubted your OCD diagnosis? Have you wondered if maybe you don’t have scrupulosity and are just using the psychological label of OCD as an excuse to sin? If so, you’re not alone. It’s basically a rite ...
Jaimie Eckert
May 11, 2023
Discerning God’s voice when we have OCD can be a confusing, painful experience. How can we know our mental impressions are truly the voice of God? I could tell you story after story of people with scrupulosity stumbling at ...
Jaimie Eckert
Apr 4, 2023
You’ve been working away at scrupulosity recovery for awhile now. You’ve found a good OCD specialist and are working hard to stop fulfilling your compulsions. You’re working hard at reducing the power of your obsessions through exposure therapy. You’re ...
Jaimie Eckert
Mar 6, 2023
The deadly sin of gluttony is one which most conscientious Christians wish to avoid. But highly conscientious Christians can sometimes take this avoidance to extremes! Thus, it’s important to learn how to avoid gluttony without being fanatical. Let me ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jan 25, 2023
Scrupulosity, the religious form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, is both a spiritual thorn in the flesh and a legitimately biological problem. Many people yearn to find a book, a pill, or a therapy for scrupulosity’s intense emotional-spiritual pain. However, just ...
Jaimie Eckert
Dec 7, 2022
